I find this one really great.
In particular , the breakdown.
Just that pulse that sort of tears you away from the original tempo, and then goes right to a really driving bassline with no preparation. That was also something i found novel about it. Like you didn't know when it would come. Well not entirely, the main motif is played right before the bass. But still.
fredjan
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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
Scot Project - Overdrive
That's an awesome song.
Icesotope
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Originally posted by fredjan
That's an awesome song.
Yeap, Probally one of its kind at the point where hard trance was pretty predictable when suddenly this one came in and crash the party. Like what Looney4Clooney said as it being the trend starter itself.
As for myself i find this intriguing then any other L-Vee productions
Meridian - Area 99
enydo
PAUL VAN DYKS - 4 AN ANGEL
enydo
PAULS VAN DYK - WHITE LIES, CHAMPAAAAGGNE
Bierheld
I've said it before when I used it in my mix, but this really is one of my favourite pieces of music ever made. Very trancey as well. So don't start complaining about the genre.
Scoops
The breakdown....the build up!!! it really doesn't get much better then this.
Whenever i hear this track....i just think to myself: What a Flawless Production!!!!
This is what a big room trance should be all about
broiler
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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
Was hard to think of a tune i thought was a master piece. I mean you have to put it into context and think about what was done before, what makes this different ......
I picked this one for a few reasons . ANd although i love scot project, this is hardly my favourite tune but there are things about it that set it apart.
i found at the time EDM tended to have very predictable percussion with the offbeat hihat , the 32 bar opening that was almost always kinda the same. Form was also predictable, drums where never really given much care in that they didn't really give a track any sort of definition that would sort of make it part of the track's quality.
the play on meter in this tune is interesting. The triplet over top the 4/4 meter and how the accents outline a polyrythm fist with the hihats, then the detuned saw synth. That bass line was for the time pretty unique. The kick drum, well not really new but new enough in that it was really only a certain style of music where you had a kick drum that wasn't a 909. And the reverb tails on the kicks which were all made by the producers at the time because sample cds with that stuff didn't exist.
Don't really care the melody. The form is immaculate tho. He uses everything to increase the overall energy from metric modulation to arrangement building the entire time in a way that was kinda unprecedented. IN many ways very non dance. I think that is what i liked about alot of german hard trance is that they really didn't follow the typical dance form. Well at the beginning. Like every genre , it sort of became a parody of itself.
What an amazing, intelligent tune. I hadn't heard this song in ages until you posted it, and I suppose I really didn't appreciate it as much back in the day. I would love to hear this in a big room.
I'm really digging this one but I haven't listened to anything in this thread that I'm disappointed with (that I don't think should be on this list), yet.
Lira
No track has ever come closer to perfection than this one:
It's like all tunes released before this one were an overture to its epic magnitude. And everything released from this point onwards is merely trance music going downhill...
